Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
by Rosella Cappella Zielinski
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Armies fight battles, states fight wars. To focus solely on armies is to neglect the broader story of victory and defeat. Military power stems from an economic base, and without wealth, soldiers cannot be paid, weapons cannot be procured, and food cannot be bought. War finance is among the most consequential...
Public Housing Myths
Perception, Reality, and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths...
Privatizing Water
Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of...
Merit
The History of a Founding Ideal from the American Revolution to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
The idea that citizens' advancement should depend exclusively on merit, on qualities that deserve reward rather than on bloodlines or wire-pulling, was among the Founding ideals of the American republic, Joseph F. Kett argues in this provocative and engaging book. Merit's history, he contends, is...
by Gerald Easter
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The postcommunist transitions produced two very different types of states. The "contractual" state is associated with the countries of Eastern Europe, which moved toward democratic regimes, consensual relations with society, and clear boundaries between political power and economic wealth. The "predatory"...
America Inc.?
Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2014
For more than half a century, the United States has led the world in developing major technologies that drive the modern economy and underpin its prosperity. In America, Inc., Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex...
Populist Collaborators
The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
An empire invites local collaborators in the making and sustenance of its colonies. Between 1896 and 1910, Japan’s project to colonize Korea was deeply intertwined with the movements of reform-minded Koreans to solve the crisis of the Choson dynasty (1392–1910). Among those reformers, it was the...
Spoils of Truce
Corruption and State-Building in Postwar Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Spoils of Truce, Reinoud Leenders documents the extensive corruption that accompanied the reconstruction of Lebanon after the end of a decade and a half of civil war. With the signing of the Ta'if peace accord in 1989, the rebuilding of the country's shattered physical infrastructure and the establishment...
No Family Is an Island
Cultural Expertise among Samoans in Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Government bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems and unintended consequences. In No Family Is an Island,...
Regulating Capital
Setting Standards for the International Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Financial instability threatens the global economy. The volatility of capital movements across national borders has led many observers to argue for a reformed "global financial architecture," a body of consistent rules and institutions to prevent financial crises. Yet regulators have a decidedly mixed...
Collaborative Governance for Urban Revitalization
Lessons from Empowerment Zones
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
For more than one hundred years, governments have grappled with the complex problem of how to revitalize distressed urban areas. In 1995, the original urban Empowerment Zones (Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia) each received a $100 million federal block grant and access...
The Purpose of Intervention
Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Violence or the potential for violence is a fact of human existence. Many societies, including our own, reward martial success or skill at arms. The ways in which members of a particular society use force reveal a great deal about the nature of authority within the group and about its members' priorities.
In...
New Deal Ruins
Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material support to families made destitute by the Great Depression, and it remained a major element of urban policy in subsequent decades. As chronicled in New...